Juggernaut Trucking To Saudi Arabia

Author : Robert Hutchison
Publisher : Fox Chapel Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1908397950
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Juggernaut: Trucking to Saudi Arabia written by Robert Hutchison and published by Fox Chapel Publishing. This book was released on 2014-03-01 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1986 professional writer Robert Hutchison became a passenger on a 10,000-mile trip through fourteen countries in a Scania 111. He was sampling the life of the long-haul trucker. The truckers' world was one of long days and nights on the road away from their families, hair-raising tales of accidents and the extreme danger created by murderous driving. He grew to understand why truckers put up with the life - not just for the money and the excitement, but also for their pride in coping whatever the circumstances and for camaraderie. There was, too, the beauty of mountains and lakesides and the strangeness of the desert. Robert's trip with Graham Davies of Whittle International took him through Cold-War Europe to Turkey and then through Iraq during the Iran - Iraq conflict with twenty-mile border queues and frequent police shakedowns. Finally they delivered their cargo of machinery and ovens for making plastic pipes to Al Khobar in Saudi Arabia before heading home after 31 days on the road. This journey was undertaken when the golden age of transport from Europe to the Gulf was coming to an end. Robert's accurate record, first published in 1987, is full of interest, drama and humour, telling the story of a remarkable breed of men. This is the first paperback edition.

Author : Robert Hutchinson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781322849621
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Juggernaut Trucking to Saudi Arabia written by Robert Hutchinson and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : James Canton
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0857735713
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From Cairo to Baghdad written by James Canton and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-08-25 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Until the 1880s, British travellers to Arabia were for the most part wealthy dilettantes who could fund their travels from private means. With the advent of an Imperial presence in the region, as the British seized power in Egypt, the very nature of travel to the Middle East changed. Suddenly, ordinary men and women found themselves visiting the region as British influence increased. Missionaries, soldiers and spies as well as tourists and explorers started to visit the area, creating an ever bigger supply of writers, and market for their books. In a similar fashion, as the Empire receded in the wake of World War II, so did the whole tradition of Middle East travel writing. In this elegantly crafted book, James Canton examines over one hundred primary sources, from forgotten gems to the classics of T E Lawrence, Thesiger and Philby. He analyses the relationship between Empire and author, showing how the one influenced the other, leading to a vast array of texts that might never have been produced had it not been for the ambitions of Imperial Britain. This work makes for essential reading for all of those interested in the literature of Empire, travel writing and the Middle East.

Author : Kevin Noble
Publisher : Northern Writers
ISBN 13 : 9780955386909
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.0X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Baghdad Trucker written by Kevin Noble and published by Northern Writers. This book was released on 2007 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Heather Bleaney
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9047413806
Total Pages : 562 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Iraq written by Heather Bleaney and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2004-06-01 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Well-considered answers to the many questions raised by the situation in Iraq, past and present, are rare. This first comprehensive, thematically organised, bibliography devoted to Iraq is based on the full Index Islamicus database and is drawn from a wide variety of European-language journals and books. Featuring an extensive introduction to the subject and its literature by Peter Sluglett, this bibliography will help readers to find their way through the massive secondary literature now available. Following the pattern established by the Index Islamicus, both journal articles and book publications are included, as well as important internet resources. The editors have taken care to add much new material to bring its coverage up to date, and supplement the previously published volumes, while the most important and/or influential publications are conveniently highlighted in the introduction. An indispensable gateway for all those with a more than superficial interest in what is, and what has been, happening in this nation so much the focus of attention today.

Author : John Wardroper
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780851172088
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Juggernaut written by John Wardroper and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Mark Cocker
Publisher : Pantheon
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Loneliness and Time written by Mark Cocker and published by Pantheon. This book was released on 1992 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ""Refreshing, original and eminently readable" (The Literary Review), Loneliness and Time is a pioneering study of travel writing as a literary form and of travel as a cultural phenomenon. Mark Cocker offers a fertile mixture of biography, history, and literary criticism in his portraits of some of the most prominent twentieth-century British explorer-writers - including Wilfred Thesiger, Laurens van der Post, Gavin Maxwell, and Lawrence Durrell - and of the places - Greece, Tibet - that obsessed them." "In scrutinizing the deep drives that impelled these men to the outer reaches, Cocker makes clear the immensely powerful idea of the journey as quest, as pilgrimage, and how it has come to carry mythological and spiritual import. In each portrait, the journey's meaning is unearthed layer by layer, and we see not only how it operates in the lives of the travelers themselves but its importance to the modern industrial and largely secular societies from which these figures emerge." "Cocker shows how foreign landscapes and their inhabitants have been used by travel writers as a means to self-definition as well as a source of image, fantasy, even self-image. Loneliness and Time illuminates the appeal of travel - the desire to explore the unfamiliar and the strange - that captivates us all."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Author : Ivor Whitall
Publisher : Fox Chapel Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1912158671
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Silk Road and Beyond written by Ivor Whitall and published by Fox Chapel Publishing. This book was released on 2021-02-01 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: True accounts of one man’s long-distance trucking career that began in the late 1960s, these adventurous anecdotes are told by one of the first pioneers in long-distance trucking to the Middle East, Ivor Whittall. From traveling overseas to Kuwait, driving the desert trek between Jordan and Saudi Arabia, and surviving the infamously dangerous (and sometimes deadly) Tahir Pass in Eastern Turkey that has claimed the lives of truckers with its haphazard landslides and avalanches and tricky mountainous terrain, readers get a driver’s seat perspective to Whittall’s daring career. With 72 contemporary color photos of trucks, drivers, passports, visas, and custom forms, readers will be thrust into what it was like being a long-distance trucker in the 1970s. Full of disastrous near misses, border control mishaps, intense home sickness, mechanical failures, cultural misunderstandings, and so much more, this book will urge you to buckle up.

Author : C. H. Bleaney
Publisher : Handbook of Oriental Studies
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 568 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Iraq written by C. H. Bleaney and published by Handbook of Oriental Studies. This book was released on 2004 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Well-considered answers to the many questions raised by the situation in Iraq, past and present, are rare. This first comprehensive bibliography on Iraq is based on the Index Islamicus, the leading bibliography on the Muslim world, and will help its readers to find their way through the extensive secondary literature.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Quarterly Index Islamicus written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: